Microsoft Reduces Pricing on Office 365
The company has revealed few concrete details about Office 365’s adoption rate, and attributed the price cuts to economies of scale. Microsoft lowered the pricing on several Office 365 plans last week by about 20 percent.
Outlook 15 Gets Ready for Touch Tablets
The next version of Outlook, part of Office 15, is all about touch and unification with other Microsoft products including native Hotmail and social networking integration, a new feature called Peek, a Windows Phone-style "People" menu, and touch optimization. That’s my takeaway from Paul Thurrott’s look at the Outlook 15 Office 15 No…
Binary Tree and Mimecast Join Forces on Microsoft Exchange and Office 365 …
Binary Tree, a Microsoft Exchange and Office 365 migration provider, has partnered with Mimecast, a cloud-based email management provider. Under the new agreement, the two companies will deliver a unified product for enabling legacy Exchange customers to manage and automate the migration of their email data to a new Exchange The…
PubNub raises $4.5M to bring real-time messaging to apps
San Francisco-based startup PubNub, which provides real-time messaging to web and mobile apps, just raised a $4.5 million Series A round of financing led by new fund Relay Ventures and Silicon Valley’s TiE Angels. The funding comes after PubNub broke a recent milestone of processing more than 100,000 messages per PubNub launched…
Is Storage A SharePoint Killer?
Channel: Storage & Mgmt, Public Cloud, Data Protection, Private Cloud, Cloud Computing, Content Management Unstructured data is becoming an IT buzz word these days, and it’s something organizations are grappling with: how to get a handle on email, Office documents and PDFs, among other data-clogging sources. Microsoft’s SharePoint document repository…
Microsoft slashes product key allowances for TechNet subscribers
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National Security Agency Pressed to Reveal Details on Google Deal
The Electronic Privacy Information Center is locking horns with the National Security Agency over a secret deal the agency cut with Google following an attack on Gmail by Chinese hackers in 2010. The information center has filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the NSA to obtain information about the…
Forwarding images in Windows Live Mail
Having problems forwarding image files in Windows Live Mail? Our Helproom Expert is here to help. QUESTION I use Windows Live Mail and can view email with photo attachments without problems. However, when I forward these messages the recipients report that the pictures are missing or displayed as a slideshow….
Minnesota Puts State Email Services in the Cloud
Chalk up Minnesota as another state government that has shifted its email to the cloud. The state’s Office of Enterprise Technology (OET) moved almost 40,000 workers in more than 70 agencies to Microsoft Office 365 for email services and collaborative tools. The change follows a prior migration of state email According to Microsoft’s…
Microsoft Gives Office a Metro Makeover
Officially, Microsoft’s Office 15 is in a hush-hush preview stage, available only to select testers sworn to secrecy. But at least one reviewer claims to have gotten hold of a copy, and he’s reported that the next version of Microsoft’s Office suite carries some obvious nods to tablet users and Microsoft’s…